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Pathologists' assistant salary

Open pathologists' assistant jobs post a median of $55.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $42.50–$66.50: about $115,400 a year full time. Measured from 47 jobs at 38 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$55.50
Median posted /hr
$43–$67
Middle half /hr
$115,400
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$30.26
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Pathologists' assistant jobs

What pathologists' assistants are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 47 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $21.47, the highest $106.34.

Posted on open jobs

$42.50–$66.50/hr

Middle half of 45 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $55.50. 32% of the 145 open pathologists' assistant jobs state an hourly rate. 13 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Pathologists' assistant pay by employer

What each employer posts for pathologists' assistants, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Northwestern Medicine$55.75$45.24–$72.213
Sharp HealthCare$80.75$67.07–$95.192
Stanford Health Care$75.25$64.63–$85.652
Northwell Health$75$50–$902
Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura$63.25$47.72–$78.622
Labcorp$59$39–$702
Strides Therapy and Educational Services$39.25$35–$452
Therapy Spot$37.50$33–$422
Sutter Health$91.25$75.96–$106.341
NewYork-Presbyterian$85$851
Catholic Health (Long Island)$78$781
Atlantic Health$69.25$50.15–$88.281
Moffitt Cancer Center$68.25$68.251
RWJBarnabas Health$66.50$57.24–$75.891
Cedars-Sinai$66.25$50.95–$81.521
Kaiser Permanente$64.50$56.15–$72.611
Endeavor Health$60.75$47.72–$73.971
HealthPartners$57.50$46.06–$69.101
Powers Health$57.50$45.48–$69.641
United Health Services (New York)$56$44.77–$67.151
UVA Health$55.50$49.15–$62.061
UPMC$53.75$42.14–$65.311
OSF HealthCare$53$48.60–$57.181
Emory Healthcare$52.75$52.691
Capital Health$51.25$44.37–$57.971
UMass Memorial Health$50$35.66–$64.201
Sanford Health$48.50$40–$571
Ellis Medicine$48.25$38.59–$57.891
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$44$40.30–$47.451
Summit Health and CityMD$42.50$37.69–$47.121
Mass General Brigham$39.75$32.47–$47.231
Premier Pediatric Therapy (previously MySpot)$37$36–$381
Tenet Healthcare$35.25$27.67–$42.881
Advocates$32.50$30–$351
ABA Alliance Therapy$30.50$27–$341
Achieve Center$28$24–$321
Bierman Autism Centers$27.50$25–$301
Boston Children's Hospital$27.50$21.47–$33.551

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Pathologists' assistant pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$67.75$64.50–$76.50$36.54 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Pathologists' assistant jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

23 open jobs from 18 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $120,600, the middle half $114,400 to $137,100, from $52,000 to $227,529 posted.

Best-paid open pathologists' assistant jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Pathologists' assistant jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (29-2010)$18.71 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$22.91 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$30.26 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$39.16 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$48.55 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)332,940 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($55.50) is $25.24 above the BLS median ($30.26 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Pathologists' assistant salary: common questions

How much does a pathologists' assistant make an hour?

Open pathologists' assistant jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $55.50, with the middle half between $42.50–$66.50 (47 jobs from 38 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $30.26/hr ($62,930 a year) for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in May 2025.

How much does a pathologists' assistant make a year?

At the posted median of $55.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $115,400, and the middle half to $88,400 to $138,300. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 23 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $120,600.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 47 of 145 open pathologists' assistant jobs (32%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (SOC 29-2010), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Pathologists' assistant salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/pathologists-assistant

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